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Medical Racism Was Meant to Hurt Black Women—And It Does
We need to take an active approach as a society to end health disparities among Black women that are caused by racism.

Positive Women’s Network Wants You to Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement
Leading up to and on March 12, Positive Women’s Network will be holding an art contest, town hall, and more events honoring the work of Black women in the fight against HIV.

Left Out and UnPrEPared
Black women are at greater risk for HIV, but many are not informed about PrEP as an option for HIV prevention.

This Digital Exhibition Uses Oral Histories to Break the Silence for Women Living With HIV
I’m Still Surviving is a collaborative digital and print exhibition that launched in December 2020, featuring hundreds of excerpts documenting the stories of 39 women living with HIV in the U.S.

For Long-Acting PrEP to be Effective, It Might Be Best for Patients to Inject Themselves
Meera Shah, M.D., M.P.H., hopes there will be an option for women to take home a year’s supply of injectable PrEP to administer themselves instead of relying on regular appointments.

Remembering Rusti Miller-Hill, Whose Life Spanned Multiple Women’s Movements
“She just didn’t know how many people she touched, and helped, and made feel good.”

Author Victoria Noe’s Book on Straight Women in the AIDS Community Finds a Voice
‘Fag Hags, Divas, and Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women in the AIDS Community’ was released on audiobook last month.

Study: Women With HIV Have More Non-AIDS Health Issues
Psychiatric illness, dyslipidemia, non-AIDS-defining cancer, and kidney, liver, and bone disease were all higher among women living with HIV than among HIV-negative women.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Long, Hard Fight for Sexual Justice
HIV and sexual justice advocates have lost an icon who spent a lifetime challenging our society to be better.

Cardi B’s Divorce Is Arousing the Morality Police
It’s nobody’s business what Black women or gay men living with HIV do in their bedrooms—and it’s not our fault if we get HIV.